Hi all. It's been a tough few weeks, feasibility studies, trying to fit everything, like trying to pour two pints of Guinness into a single pint glass.

It's 23.07 GMT and we've just tucked into a KFC party bucket. While we aren't having a party, we're having a ball pushing ahead with the micro iDSD.

Here is pretty much the mechanical design, confirmed and in part with models built to confirm things fit. Much of the design matches what Roamling showed in the first few days, colour us impressed, we could not do much better.

Starting with the front, this will mostly resemble the iCan nano in layout, with the 3D Holographic sound and X-Bass switches.

The HP Jack will be 6.3mm. What you can only see on the next picture is that the Filter switch is a slider switch on the left hand side surface which will fit flush.

On the back you see leftmost the SPDIF input/output. This will be very interesting, more another time.

The two RCA line outputs are in the middle, then the USB input. We have built a mock-up and tested that even with modestly fat "high end" RCA connectors that just manages to fit.

So, externally at least we can deliver a lot of what you all have asked for. More to come...

Ciao,

Thorsten

This is amazing! I cant believe you took my design suggestion and and went all the way to town to test the design and put in so much effort to make it happen. I am certainly very happy the way the design turned out and it looks very clean. The filter switch on the side is a brilliant idea.

Keep it coming! Cant wait to see more features, this whole project really rocks...

I'm a 100% desktop user and voted as such. I'm looking for a product that will accept all resolutions via USB with as much quality as possible and convert to analog with as much quality as possible and then send to my audiophile pre-amp (via RCA) with as much quality as possible. I don't need or want anything more and I'm glad to pay up for quality if that quality is replacing the "more" that I don't need or want. I haven't yet found anything on the market that fits my bill, but I'm hoping the micro idsd comes close. My best to you guys at ifi.Edited by bjas406 - 4/18/14 at 10:17am